In the last ten years when two aunties have been in either Hospital or a Nursing Home, when it looked like they were near the end of the road, I asked the staff to request the Hospital Chaplain in the one case, or the local Vicar, to attend. I believe that helped my two relatives, and it also helped...

I am sorry to have to say this, but it seems to me that the preferred method for medical services to support families that have one member with a serious and potentially life threatening mental illness, is to follow the Mushroom method with the spouse and children. That is: Keep you in the Dark, and...

The problem or difficulty that I encountered, was that my two Aunties lived on Merseyside England, and I lived in a different county in Wales. I didn't know whether I was supposed to get help from the Local Authority where I lived, or from the local authority where my Aunties lived. That problem pro...